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' RE'IZENTION DEVICE FOR UMBRELLAS AND PARASOL S.

No. 286,501. Patented 001;. 9, 1883.

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"RETENTION DEVICE FOR UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,501, dated October 9 1883.

' Application filed July 25, 1883. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,V1RGIL D. STOCKBRIDGE, a citizen of the United-States, residing at IVashington, in the District of Columbia, have in- 5 vented certain new and useful Improvements in a Retention Device for Umbrellas, Parasols, 850.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in IO the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved retention device for umbrellas, parasols, and the like, which shall be ornamental and much stronger than those now in general use; and the invention consists, first, in the combination of a stop or catch with a simple slotted plate; second, in a slotted plate, provided with prongs for securing the plate and its connections to the stick; third, in the combination of a stop or catch, slotted plate and spring; and, also, in the combination of an umbrellastick provided with a suitable cut or cavity, a suitable abutment and retainingledge, a stop or catch, and a spring, all as shown, and hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section of a segment of an umbrella-stick, showing the top or catch as combined with a slotted plate, a spring, and a stick. Fig. 2 is also a section, showing the combination, with the slotted plates, the spring, and stick, of a modified form of catch. Fig. 3 is a perspective giving 5 anexterior view of a part of the stick with my invention applied. Fig. 4 shows the slotted plate detached. Fig. 5 is a side view of the stop or catchdetached.

a is the stop or catch, made from sheet metal, and, as shown in Fig. 1, it is provided with a'notch, at one end,'and with a lip, z, at the other. This form of catch is preferred by me in practice. In Fig. 2 the stop or catch (t has a lip, z, the same as shown in Fig. 1; but

.5 instead of the concaved notch x, it is made with a notch, a", forming a less perfect joint than the notch x, but serving to resist the thrust on the catch, and with a properly arranged spring, or cut in the wood, may be kept in place. It is not, however, so convenient for assembling and attaching the parts to the stick; but when combined to articulate at the rabbet with the slotted plate the two forms of catch are the substantial equivalents of each other. A spring, 0, is secured to the stop a by making a cut in the edge of the stop, inserting an end of the spring, and hammering or upsetting-the metal. I) is the plate, provided withaslot, and with prongs or tacks i, the latter for securing the plate and its connections to the stick.' The stick is cut with a saw .of

ings, to provide a cavity for the spring and stop to work in, and is flattened above the sawcut, as a countersink for the plate. The plate is convex on the outer face and concave next to the stick, as shown.

It will be observed that because of the notch or rabbet and the lip the stop orcatch a may be coupled with the plate I) throughits slot, the plate at one end of the slot being the fulcrum upon which the stop articulates, and thus no separate pivot is required, and when the notched stop, shown in Fig. 1, is used, they can only be separated by removing the stop from the same side it is inserted, and as that is properly the under side, there is no possibility of removing the stop or catch without also removing the plate.

It is obvious that the stop a may be used withoutthe slotted securing-plate by having an abutment or rest upon which the notched end .of the stop may articulate, and a stop at the other end toengage with the lip. Bars eX- tending across the saw-cut, headed tacks, or staples driven into the stick would answer a good purpose.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a retention device for umbrellas, parasols, or the like, the stop or catch herein described, in combination with a slotted plate, the plate at one end of the slot forming the bearing upon which the notched end of the stop articulates, substantially as described.

2. In a retention device for umbrellas, a slotted plate provided with projections whereby said plate and the stop and spring are secured tothe stick, as set'forth.

3. The combination of a stop or catch hav ing an articulating-notch, aslotted plate, and

small diameter, about as shown in the drawa spring, the combination being and operating the notched end being adapted to articulate on as herein described. a suitable abutment and the other to be re- 4. The combination of an umbrella-stick taincd by a suitable ledge, as shown and de providcdwith a cut or cavity, a slotted plate, scribed. I 5 5 a stop or catch provided with an articulating- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in notch, anda spring, substantially as described. presence of two witnesses.

5. Asa new article of manufacture a stop or catch for a retention device for unibrellas STOCKBRIDGE' and the like, consisting of a plate having an Vitncsses:

1o articulating-notch at one end and a lip at the l XVARREN C. STONE,

other, as shown, without perforation for pivot, WM. A. .ROSENBAUM. 

